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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Stroud in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8678S, -96.6821WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.635 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.6821 West, latitude 35.8678 North, depth = 6.635 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:56:54 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20007ew4. Event ids that are associated: us20007ew4. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 18:56:54 / October 17, 2016 @ 6:56 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Bixby, Perry (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.635 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Stroud, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-17 18:56:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-19 23:15:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007ew4 Id of event.
Event Code 20007ew4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007ew4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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